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Two very shocking murders occurred in Holland, both apparently because
the victims had strong public positions that were anathema to groups
with opposing views.
Pim Fortuyn was a controversial but charismatic political figure
with an outside chance of being elected prime minister.
He was assassinated apparently by a leftist activist on May 6 2002 at 18:06.
This was a political murder in a sense, but complicated. Fortuyn was an
outspoken gay libertarian who was also frankly anti-immigration
because Muslim immigrants tended to be intolerant of homosexuals
like himself. He called for programs to assimilate resident Muslims into
the traditional Dutch culture of open-mindedness.
In this case I did an exploratory
analysis at the time or a few months later,
and it was extensive, separating out the data
for egg 1000, which is in Amsterdam.
The graph is self-explanatory, and very interesting, suggesting
departure from expectation associated with the murder, but only for the
network as a whole.
The more recent, and also
widely publicized murder was Theo van Gogh on Nov 2 2004 at 08:45 local
time. It was seen as a part of the building effects of international
terrorism. The event is
shown as a cumulative deviation of Chisquare over a period
beginning 1 hour before the murder and ending 3 hours after. (This
was a new exploration done by request, Jul 28 2005.)
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